Do blogs improve your SEO? SEO Tips

Answer: Short answer: yes. Blogging and SEO go hand-in-hand. Especially with Google’s transition to so-called ‘real-time’ or ‘blended’ search, it is very helpful to create active blog and news sections on your web site.

That said, many people ask what to blog about, and how to set up their blog. Here are some basic recommendations:

Host your blog on your own site – hosting on a third party like blogger.com might be easy, but you give up all the SEO benefits in terms of PageRank and content that you gain by hosting on your own website.

Check your blog output – check the SOURCE of your HTML on your blog posts, and make sure it has accurate TITLE, DESCRIPTION, and other important tags. View your blog as Google blogs it.

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Jason McDonald, Ph.D

Got a question? Click this link to email Jason or call 888-993-1122. Dr. Jason McDonald is founder and Senior SEO / Social Media Director of the JM Internet Group. He teaches the SEO training classes for the group, and therefore provides most of the SEO tips for this blog. His goal with this blog is to provide an easy 'one-stop shop' for the busy marketer looking for tips, tricks, and secrets on how to get to the top of Google and Bing for free using proven SEO tactics. When not dreaming up SEO tips, Dr. McDonald lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, two dogs, a cat, four iguanas and twelve children (just kidding). Really you read down to the bio on this guy? Enjoy the blog.